Sharda USA LLC has hired Don Rossi as the company's director of specialty products for the United States and Canada.
Prior to joining Sharda USA, Rossi held key positions at Target Specialty Products, Cleary Chemical, Scotts and Helena....

America in Bloom (AIB) has become a partner in the Million Pollinator Challenge.
The Challenge is a campaign to register one million public and private gardens and landscapes to support pollinators, and was created in support of President Obama’s...

SHS Griffin released its annual seed and plant catalog for the 2015-2016 season.
The 2016 catalog is available in print and online, featuring more than 400 new varieties.
The company’s full seed portfolio; more than 3,400 cultivars of annuals,...

The 2016 National Floriculture Forum (NFF) will take place Jan. 24-29, in the Netherlands and Germany.
Meeting objectives include:
Addressing issues of importance to the floriculture industry
Forming collaborative relationships
Improving...

David Martin has joined the Pleasant View Gardens team as its new territory sales manager.
Martin’s responsibilities include account management, new product launches, territory management and expansion and production planning, along with industry...

Growers, landscapers and gardening enthusiasts are invited to participate in the annual Plant Trial Field Day at Michigan State University on August 4.
The program features presentations on the “Best of the Best” from Daedre Craig, trial...

Suzanne McKee, director of marketing at ePlantSource, is part of a team that has organized a 14 km hike up Grays Peak in Colorado to help raise funds to find a cure Batten Disease.
Batten Disease CLN6 is a rare neurodegenerative disorder that...

Syngenta Flowers has released a new resource for growers and brokers in the form of an app.
The Syngenta Flowers app includes information about all of the company’s flower varieties, helping growers and brokers quickly access descriptions, culture,...

Twelve students from five southeastern universities received academic scholarships from the Sidney B. Meadows Scholarship Fund on Wed., July 22 during SNA 2015 in Atlanta.
“Congratulations to this exemplary group of students who have excelled...

Robert (Bob) Peters, founder of the Robert B Peters Company passed away peacefully surrounded by his family last weekend in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He was 97.
He was a true floriculture chemist who designed and formulated the earliest Peters...

Participants from the United States, Canada, Mexico and more than 20 other countries traveled to Columbus, Ohio for Cultivate’15 on July 11-14. The largest all-industry horticulture exposition and convention in North America recently concluded with...

Last week at Cultivate’15, Dümmen Orange announced that its facilities in Las Mercedes, El Salvador, were being recognized by MPS for its “continued dedication to ensuring sustainability in the floriculture industry.”
At the facilities, Dümmen...

CENTS 2016, hosted by the Ohio Nursery & Landscape Association (ONLA), will take place Jan. 11-13 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio.
The trade show portion of the convention will feature more than 400 suppliers offering products...

Floriculture specialist Nora Catlin was honored with an “Excellence in IPM” award from the New York State Integrated Pest Management Program (NYS IPM) on July 15, at the Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center’s Plant Science Day....

The International Trials Conference, held in conjunction with the 2015 Farwest Show in Portland, Oregon, has announced tour stops.
The day-long excursion takes place on the last day of the biennial conference held Aug. 24-27.
Tour stops include:
-...

As part of the company's strategic growth plan, McConkey has announced a $3 million investment that includes equipment modernization, new product development, capacity expansion and production centralization.
“We believe that to be industry leaders...

Northwest Horticulture has plans to expand for its Etera Sales Division, the green roof and Sedum Tile living mat segment of its business.
The company has invested in both personnel and production capacities and will also add new strategic...

Flamingo Holland and Gootjes-AllPlant have teamed up to bring Stage III tissue culture to the North American market.
This partnership came as a result of an effort to facilitate the need for technical service in North America while streamlining...